MCLEAN, Va.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--An algorithm that predicts consumer retail trends down to the style of
sweater that’s most likely to sell out this fall. And another that could
transform heart disease diagnosis. Buried in the volumes of data we
produce every day are answers to questions that may fuel a retailer’s
success. Or insights that can help to solve challenges that have plagued
us for decades. But until society becomes more conversant in analytics
and data science, this transformative knowledge will remain out of
reach. With updates to its Sailfish
platform, Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) is leading commercial and
government organizations to learn more from their data and to spur
business and mission success. For the first time, users can try their
own hand at analytics by accessing Booz Allen Hamilton’s Sailfish trial
that is fully available to the public.

“In a time when the availability of skilled data scientists lags
way behind the demand for analytics, we’ve specifically engineered
Sailfish to allow more professionals to assist their organization in the
pursuit of informed decision making without needing heavy formal
training.”

Through work at the highest levels of the federal government, military,
and dozens of Fortune 500 companies, Booz Allen’s team of 600+ data
scientists have developed algorithms to improve vehicle safety, increase
access to vaccines, and combat human trafficking. This experience has
been applied to the Sailfish solution, first
introduced in January 2016, to deliver a number of improvements,
including:

Easy Analytics for Beginners and Experts: New application
protocol interfaces (APIs) make it easier to move data and information
back and forth between the three different Sailfish solutions,
Sailfish Exchange, Sailfish Explore and Answers on Demand. As a
result, identifying, analyzing and taking action with data is highly
intuitive, even for users without formal data science or analytics
training. This means that business leaders can find trends and
patterns in their own data, without a team of engineers for help.

Access to Open Data Sets in a Collaborative Environment: The
updated Sailfish platform features access to additional public source
data sets on a variety of topics, including Presidential campaign
expenditures, adverse drug events, and natural disasters.
Organizations can collaborate with one another as they share, comment
and generate actionable insights from Open data. This community based
approach to generating actionable insights from Open Data translates
into digital experiences that help citizens benefit from Open Data.

More Powerful Analytics Modules: For seasoned data scientists,
Sailfish offers new, more powerful analytical modules, along with R
integration which will let data scientists freely create and integrate
their own algorithms within Sailfish.

“Sailfish breaks down the barriers between traditional analytics and
management teams, allowing businesses to function as a cohesive unit and
be smarter and more efficient in their decision making,” said Booz Allen
Senior Vice President Josh Sullivan, a leader of the firm’s data science
team. “In a time when the availability of skilled data scientists lags
way behind the demand for analytics, we’ve specifically engineered
Sailfish to allow more professionals to assist their organization in the
pursuit of informed decision making without needing heavy formal
training.”

Sailfish Explore: a natural language driven application
enabling easy analysis of data sets found in Sailfish Exchange or any
enterprise data set

Answers on Demand: a support platform that connects users with
Booz Allen’s data science workforce for expert assistance

Booz Allen is committed to driving innovation in data science and
analytics. In 2014, the firm launched Explore
Data Science, an online training program geared toward a wide
range of data science students. In 2015, Booz Allen released the latest
iteration of TheField
Guide to Data Science, an industry resource of data science best
practices and use cases. For more information on the firm’s data
analytics capabilities, go to BoozAllen.com/DataScience

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has been at the forefront of strategy
and technology for more than 100 years. Today, the firm provides
management and technology consulting and engineering services to leading Fortune 500
corporations, governments, and not-for-profits across the globe. Booz
Allen partners with public and private sector clients to solve their
most difficult challenges through a combination of consulting,
analytics, mission operations, technology, systems delivery,
cybersecurity, engineering, and innovation expertise.

With international headquarters in McLean, Virginia, the firm employs
about 22,600 people globally, and had revenue of $5.41 billion for the
12 months ended March 31, 2016. Booz Allen’s combined defense and
intelligence revenue for this same period was $3.9 billion.